Solar instruments on the P78-1 spacecraft.
Abstract
The solar experiment package on the P78-1 spacecraft is described. The satellite was launched on 24 February 1979 by the U.S. Air Force and contains high resolution Bragg crystal spectrometers, hard X-ray proportional counters, and a white light coronagraph. The high resolution spectrometers were built by the Aerospace Corporation and the Naval Research Laboratory. The hard X-ray spectrometers were built by the Aerospace Corporation and the white light coronagraph was supplied by the Naval Research Laboratory. Most of these instruments are still returning data.
- Publication:
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Solar Physics
- Pub Date:
- July 1983
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF00157170
- Bibcode:
- 1983SoPh...86....9D
- Keywords:
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- Coronagraphs;
- Satellite-Borne Instruments;
- Scientific Satellites;
- Solar Instruments;
- Solar Spectrometers;
- Solar Flares;
- Solar Spectra;
- Solar X-Rays;
- Spacecraft Instrumentation;
- High Resolution;
- Research Laboratory;
- Naval Research;
- Proportional Counter;
- Naval Research Laboratory;
- Solar Flares:Space Instrumentation;
- Solar X Rays:Space Instrumentation;
- Space Instrumentation:Solar Flares;
- Space Instrumentation:Solar X Rays